On the surface it's funny, but you do know that the Bible was originally written in Hebrew (Old Testament) and Greek (New Testament), right? And someone had to translate it. Have a Bible signed by the translator isn't WTF at all.
Posts made by gramie
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RE: So apparently you can now get these...
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RE: Thank you so much, I feel better now
Ce n'est pas un ballon.
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RE: What year is it? Let me check the database...
This could actually make complete sense if the application is to be used in different cultures. For example, this year is 平成26 in Japan, the 26th year of the 平成 (Heisei) emperor (known in the west as Emperor Akihito). This is not obscure: while Japanese people do use the Gregorian calendar and know full well that it is 2014, 平成26 is used far more often in everyday life.
This lookup table would allow a translation from Gregorian to Japanese years (and other cultures do similar things) for output. More important, it could also handle years before 1989, which were years of the 昭和 (Showa) emperor (known better to us as Hirohito).
- 1987 昭和62
- 1988 昭和63
- 1989 平成1 (also called 平成元年, the change actually happened on Hirohito's death, January 8th of that year)
- 1990 平成2
- 1991 平成3
- ...
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RE: Missing The Point Award for 2013
@da Doctah said:
TRWTF is Canada Post. And not just because of this.
My kids get packages regularly from family in Japan, and we sometimes send things there. I just compared mail rates for a 2 kg package:
Canada -> Japan: $56
Japan -> Canada: $29Really? Twice as expensive? When Japan has home delivery 6 days a week and we get "superboxes" so our whole neighbourhood has to go and pick up their mail?
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RE: IE10
@dhromed said:
I have no idea what you're talking about. The scrollwheel on OSX behaves normally.
No it doesn't. By default, if you scroll the wheel towards the top of the mouse, it moves the page up, as if you were swiping up on a touchscreen. You can change it in preferences, but default is the opposite of everything we've used scroll wheels for in the past 10-15 years.
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RE: Double Negatives
There's only one technique you need to use with telemarketers:
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RE: Robolinux
@dhromed said:
But but.. German has lots of plurals! Most even end with -s!
On Scandinavian languages I can't comment. I remember vaguely that Japanese had no concept of plural like roman languages, but I'm not sure.
Actually, most German nouns do not make plurals with "s". It's typically words of foreign origin, such as Kino, Chef, or Kamera.
It is true that Japanese has no singular/plural (usually you construct the sentence to get the number across to the listener).
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RE: How do I pdf in html
This removes the ability of the user to print or save the PDF. I think that's kind of a stupid thing to do, but maybe somewhere, somehow, someone found a valid use for it.
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RE: Phishing WTF
“Just think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are even stupider!”
--George Carlin
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RE: Sony's PSN is basically what you get if you showed a chimp Xbox Live and told him to replicate it in 2 weeks
@blakeyrat said:
I will say that all their support people are nice and friendly and respond quickly (once the ticket was opened) and seem to read and write English proficiently. In all fairness.
I had a recent issue with them, and they were friendly, polite, and communicated well. But it annoyed me to hear "thank you for your understanding" when I was not prepared to be understanding at all. (My son's Japanese PS3 game would not play Canadian DLC, even though the game ran fine on our machine and we were able to pay for and download the DLC without any warnings. It took 24 hours, but in the end we got a refund for the DLC, which was what I had been asking for all along.)
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RE: Sensible default save location
I tend to use Smultron a lot. I have Coda installed, but find that (like so much for the Mac) it hides a lot of the details I want to see.
For formatting code, I haven't found anything better than Netbeans. Yes, it's a full IDE, but I like the syntax colouring, completion, and formatting even for other files. Integrated PHP debugger and SVN/GIT/Mercurial (plus *local* tracking of changes within the IDE) is also awesome.
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RE: Things that go through your mind
But you would first have to learn to read Japanese (but only katakana, not the far more difficult kanji) that is horizontally flipped.
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RE: Make sure it's initialized!
@Sutherlands said:
I've heard there are languages that redeclare/reinitialize variables when declaring them inside of a loop.
Do you mean like JavaScript? If you declare a variable within a function, it "hoists" the declaration so that it effectively takes place at the beginning of the function.
[How is it that in a forum of computer nerds 90% don't know how to use a goddamn A tag? -ShadowMod]
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RE: Javascript semicolon flamewar
@blakeyrat said:
Seinfeld, you need to watch about 5-6 episodes before it starts getting funny. Each episode has a few actual jokes, and a few have good surreal humor (poisoned envelopes, the whole plotline about making "Jerry") but the vast majority of jokes are based on watching the characters' personality. If you don't know the personality, you don't get the jokes. If you watch from beginning to end, it's fucking hilarious.
Sorry, I beg to differ. I've watched many episodes of Seinfeld, and the more I watched it, the more I got tired of the endless repetition. I know what George is like, and how he will react. I know how Kramer will, and Elaine, etc. I like the occasional witty line, but that's not enough to hold my attention.
I do like other sit-coms. Actually, you know what my favourite sitcoms don't have, but Seinfeld does? A laugh track. Maybe that's the thing that irritates me to the point of changing the channel. I can't think of a single program that I enjoy, that has a laugh track. Okay, Fawlty Towers, but that's it.
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RE: Meters, Yard, Same Thing . . .
100 meters has 1 significant digit. When converting, what is the point of saying 109.36 yards, when the distance is clearly a rough estimate anyway? I would say that using an inappropriate conversion is worse.
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RE: You really didn't see that coming?
@DOA said:
... or a butterfly on the other side of the world is having its period...
That really made me laugh!
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RE: Credit card number autocompletion
@dhromed said:
It's said that much slowness can also come from the amount of connections. I even see some sites use a php/asp merger script to combine the multitude of CSS and JS into a single file before writing the LINK or SCRIPT tag. I have no definitive benchmarks on whether this actually makes a difference. After all, bittorrent creates and destroys thousands upon thousands of connections to yank your favourite porn movie, so as far as my network expertise goes (which is rather little) that casts doubt on the the "many connections = slow" idea.
CMSs sometimes do this. I know that Drupal does, and it speeds up the experience quite a bit. It even caches different combinations of JS/CSS files, so that you can have some files loaded on certain pages but not others, and you still only have one download per page for JS and one for CSS.
And IE6 was a right bastard (no surprise!); it wouldn't even load our Drupal pages correctly, because it has a limit of 16 or 18, and due to 3rd-party module styles we went over that. Merging CSS solved that.
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RE: CSS is for wimps
dhromed: I haven't had to memorize any more CSS since I started using NetBeans as my programming editor. It auto-completes CSS styles.
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RE: Browser detection?
Is it possible that you were somehow unable to detect the thick layer of sarcasm on Neuromancer's post?
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RE: Printf the hard way
Or, of course, you could use the built-in IntToHex() function
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RE: Bad user experience by design
@Master Chief said:
FUCK THAT...
Your reply makes me think that you didn't read the comment where the OP says that he is the only foreigner working in a Japanese company (in Japan, one would assume). For that matter, it doesn't sound like you have much real-world business experience at all.In all the alternate universes, there is none where contradicting your Japanese boss in front of customers/clients brings a positive outcome. Nor one where doing so actually gets you his job. Both sides of the table would be profoundly uncomfortable.
For that matter, the odds of a non-Japanese managing Japanese white-collar employees under any circumstances are long indeed. "People would find it uncomfortable because you can't understand them like a Japanese can" is enough to scotch that idea. Hell, even if you are a Japanese woman it's hard. In my (relatively progressive) company, of 56 managers exactly 1 was female -- and she was on the lowest level.
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RE: Reason #84883 I hate VB.net
Delphi/Pascal also differentiates between "procedure" and "function". To make matters worse, if there are no parameters, the proc/func can be called without parentheses, so it's sometimes hard to tell the difference between
a = some_var_or_object
and
a = some_function
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RE: Buzzword cross-over FAIL
Okay, but to be fair, this is clearly not a completed website. Look at the text in the left column, for example! Maybe just someone's rough sketch.